> a specimen of such writing, which I may safely defy the united ingenuity of the whole human race to decypher, to the end of time Turns out to have been rathe

> a specimen of such writing, which I may safely defy the united ingenuity of the whole human race to decypher, to the end of time Turns out to have been rather optimistic. But I'd say that holding up for 200 years before yielding to a combination of modern mathematics and brute computational force that would have been utterly unimaginable to Patterson is still quite impressive.